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I feel that this sort of attitude doesn't exactly encourage immigrants outside of their "pockets". Angry attitudes only beget more of the same. When all they read/hear about is about how people don't want them around, they're hardly motivated to get out and talk to people. They'd be scared and retreat.

Often, when the next generation have attended school amongst locals, they maintain some of their customs but assimilate further. My maternal grandparents came to Australia by boat. They spoke heavily-accented English at best, after 40 years here. My mother could speak fluently in their native tongue, but speaks predominantly in English, as do all of her children. You wouldn't pick any of us as anything but locals.

It strikes me as odd that you'd consider Auckland to be "disgusting" due to pockets of Indian and Chinese, yet move to Singapore and enjoy the melting pot of cultures there. Some of these things take decades to develop.

Look at the waves arriving in Australia - Europeans, then Asians, Africans, Middle East, etc. With time, each group gradually folds into the mix. The old lady irked by a woman in a burqa would hardly notice a second-generation European speaking without an accent. Yet at every stage, there has been pushback - Asian Invasion! and the like.